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Scandlines udskyder 2020-ambition om fossilfrie færger, da det er for dyrt

British governments' actions to date in adding more expensive non-fossil-fuel-based energy to the bills of industrial users have not only continued our deindustrialisation but have actually caused global emissions to increase, not decrease: the manufacturing has been outsourced, above all, to China, whose use of coal is more intensive than that of any European country. As Dieter Helm, the professor of energy policy at Oxford, puts it: "The story for the past 20 years is that in Europe we have been de-industrialising, and we've been swapping home production for imports, so even though it looks to the contrary, [our policies] have been increasing global warming." Marvellous. Carry on, chaps. Just remember to turn the lights out as you leave. Assuming you could still afford to have them on in the first place